Jury to resume mulling Philly murder trial Monday

The panel deliberated all last week without reaching a verdict in the case of Kaboni Savage, 38, and members are to resume deliberations Monday.

Savage is charged in the deaths of 12 people, including the 2004 firebombing of the home of a man who planned to testify against him that killed the man’s mother, another woman and four children.

The Philadelphia Inquirer says the panel had only a few requests to review evidence last week, seeking a transcript of a man who testified that Savage ordered the firebombing.

Prosecutors, who are seeking the death penalty, said that although Savage has mostly been in prison since 2003, he gave orders through phone calls and prison visits and communicated with other inmates through prison plumbing pipes, and he ordered the Coleman arson through a relative.

Savage, a former boxer who has denied any role in the attacks, is currently serving a 30-year drug-trafficking sentence.

His attorney says that Savage never ran a criminal “racketeering enterprise” and has challenged the credibility of prosecution witnesses.

Defense attorney Christian Hoey said in closing arguments of the trial, which began in February, that “there is no such thing as a Kaboni Savage organization.”

“He didn’t make a pretty penny,” Hoey said. “He lived with his mother on Darien Street. He was a drug dealer. He drove a Subaru.”